p365- The Never-ending Halloween

Oct 25th

Her first field trip!  They week to the pumpkin patch in Reedley and Daddy was able to go too!  They had a fun day and even got to ride on a big yellow school bus!!!

Oct 26th

Cheap labor!  Sweet Pea loves to help wash windows!  Who cares that her cousins were over. . .she just wanted to help mom! 

 

Oct 27th

Fun with the boy cousins!  Pumpkin and Cousin K-Love (as she calls him!) are such good buddies.  It is fun watching them play together. . .even as they are about to get in trouble right after this picture!

Oct 28th

Our second annual harvest party!  So much fun to have all our family and friends over for this again.  This year it grew. . .and grew. .. and grew!  The girls had a blast and we can't wait to do it again next year!

Oct 29th

Church harvest festival!  Daddy ran his paintball booth and I took the girls around the Trunk-r-Treating area.  They had so much fun!

Oct 30th

Painting Pumpkins!  So much easier for my girls than carving.  Sweet Pea was so focused and knew exactly how she wanted to paint hers. . .apparently purple!

Oct 31st

Halloween is finally here!!!  For the first time we were able to go with ALL of the cousins on Mommy's side.  Such a treat to have everyone together and nice to have the big kids to help carry the little ones.

Pumpkin Party! (from Oct 2010)

When I met my in-laws about 10 years ago, they had a harvest party for their company.  It was a blast- hayride through the orchards, a huge bonfire out back, and time to relax and enjoy friends and family.  Things became busy. . . we had our wedding, kids were born, careers started, and the harvest party was something in the past. Until my father-in-law bought a rusty old tractor for a great deal.  He was teased about the bucket of rust, but slowly he worked over the course of a year to restore his old Farmall crank-start tractor.   Together the idea came up to have a harvest party complete with a hayride and picking pumpkins from the field across the street.

The first group!

Arriving at the "pumpkin patch"

Our perfect plan we derailed a few times- first by the lady who owns the pumpkin patch selling all her pumpkins to a wholesaler, then by the weather (go away rain!), and FINALLY we had the perfect night.  Family and friends came to eat, pick pumpkins, and enjoy each others company.  We planted our own pumpkins in the field so we would be able to still enjoy the experience!  We meet new and old cousins and they all ran around like crazy.  Then the pumpkin carving began. . .some were ambitious, others simple, but everyone had fun.  And the pumpkins turned out great!!!